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Trades click on new computer science building
Date: Mar-04-2005
A new $40 million Computer Science and Engineering Building is under construction on the University of Michigan campus. Skanska USA and the building trades are in the process of erecting...
Big contractors tapped for two big projects
Date: Feb-18-2005
Two of Michigan's largest general contractors - Barton-Malow and Walbridge- Aldinger - were tapped earlier this month to oversee construction of two of the state's largest construction projects. The jobs...
Grand hotel planned in Grand Rapids
Date: Feb-18-2005
GRAND RAPIDS - The city's downtown will soon get an impressive addition to its skyline, in the form of a 24-story, 340-room hotel. The hotel will have the Marriott label...
In a 'hissy-fit,' Wal Mart says it will close store about to unionize
Date: Feb-18-2005
Wal Mart Stores Inc. announced on Feb. 9 that they will close a Canadian store whose employees were on the verge of being the first in North America to win...
News Briefs
Date: Feb-18-2005
Bush ups road budget pledge President Bush has upped how much he is willing to spend on the nation's roads. Under the budget he proposed last month, the federal government...
Trades bridge a gap to expand U-M's School of Public Health
Date: Feb-18-2005
ANN ARBOR - The building trades and general contractor Walbridge-Aldinger have arrived at a crossroads on the University of Michigan campus as they build the School of Public Health Buildings...
U.S. union membership numbers drop, so does optimism for rebound
Date: Feb-18-2005
Unionists still enjoy a significant wage gap over their non-union colleagues, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. The average union worker makes $781 per week, while the average...
Your health and safety matters
Date: Feb-18-2005
OSHA is union blind. Because union companies, as opposed to non-union, often have larger projects and worksites that remain active over long periods of time, some union contractors suspect their...
AFL-CIO must be 'willing to make radical changes in tactics,'Laborers president says
Date: Feb-04-2005
The AFL-CIO - the glue that holds the labor movement together - may start to come apart at the seams in 2005. Or maybe those seams in the labor movement...
Cool concept - district chillers take the heat off multiple buildings
Date: Feb-04-2005
ANN ARBOR - A number of buildings on the University of Michigan's North Campus will be chillin' this summer with a unique new district cooling system. The North Campus Chiller...